46 Salsa Sauce (1/2)

”Alright master Ikki, our business is done here. We can go to that person who can make cloth, or you want to take that barrel back to the house first?”

”Let' back first and take this barrel home chief”

Well, this barrel is quite heavy and I don't want to carry it all around the way.

”Okay, it's almost lunchtime anyway. Let go back first”

So we return to chief Harvard house to put the barrel down and have a lunch. I wonder what they make for lunch this time and whether Silvie already returns from the pond or not.

When we arrive, I see Silvie already returns and busy preparing the lunch in the kitchen. After putting down the fats barrel in the backyard, I go to the kitchen to help her.

”What do you make for lunch Silvie?”

Although I know she making the tortilla that I teach her this morning, I pretend don't know

”Ikki, I try to make the recipe you teach me this morning, but I haven't make the topping yet”

”Alright let me help you. What we got for the topping?”

”My mother left me with fish, cabbage, and tomatoes over there, can that made for topping, Ikki?”

”Sure, any meat can be used for topping. Fish, chicken, beef, mutton, or pork all can be used. Okay, I'm making the topping you make the tortilla”

After we divide the job, we start doing our respective work. I clean and remove the fish gut, cut head and tail then make a fish fillet from that fish. Another important thing to make fish tortilla is salsa sauce. Since we have many tomatoes here, I can make it salsa sauce too. I pick some cilantro, garlic, and onion from the shelf to make that sauce. Also some sugar, salt, and chili from my backpack.

First thing in making this salsa sauce is, cut the tomato in half and removes the stem. Since I want to make a thick sauce, I also remove the seed then cut into big pieces. After that, I chopped the onion and cilantro that I take from Silvie's herb, put them all in a basin, then chop the garlic. Actually, it would better if there's some jalapeno or Serrano chili, but since those things not available here, I replace it with ordinary chili. Finally, I also pour some lime essence, salt, and sugar on the basin. Then I grind them all in the basin using a wooden grinder that I found in the kitchen until all of the turns into a paste. Then, voila, salsa sauce is ready. After the sauce is ready I chopped the cabbage and soak them in vinegar for some minutes before putting it in a bowl and serve it with tortilla

Within 20 minutes, salsa sauce and fried fish filled already finish to cook. Together with the tortilla that Silvie made, we make a fish tortilla for our lunch today.

With fish fillet, cabbage bowl, and salsa sauce accompany the tortilla, we bring it all to the dining table. Chief Harvard is already waiting there for lunch.